From: BobG on
I bet one print (with the mushy sound) had an optical sound track and
the other print had a mag stripe on the edge for the audio. The specs
for mag tape are well known, and regular old 16bit 44khz CDs sound a
lot better, I think the optical track has worse signal to noise ratio
than the mag tape. Every spec of dust is a click or pop just like a
record.
From: Jasen Betts on
On 2010-05-07, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
> Watching an "old" movie (1975, "Capone" :-) via cable
>
> The sound was muffled/"mushy"... hard to understand.
>
> Other sources are fine.
>
> What is "mushy" sound? Hum mixed in? Distortion? What is it?

you mean other than an audiophool term?

frequency spread? some frequencies heavily attenuated? reverb?

> Can it be processed to clean it up?

as much of the distortion as can be characterised without a random term
or a zero term can probably be reversed

> ...Jim Thompson


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From: Oppie on
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
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> Watching an "old" movie (1975, "Capone" :-) via cable
>
> The sound was muffled/"mushy"... hard to understand.
>
> Other sources are fine.
>
> What is "mushy" sound? Hum mixed in? Distortion? What is it?
>
> Can it be processed to clean it up?
>

Try this (needs www.bittorrent.com p2p client)
http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/3130285/Capone-(1975)-DVDRip-MovieExtreme

or

http://www.monova.org/download/2778475/2009-06-06/8646da6231f333cd1a616e2c8670f09ddcffe258/Capone%20(1975)%20DVDRip.%20MovieExtreme.torrent

Both show that they have a few seeders at present.